Re: On view updating
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:14:09 -0400
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"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
news:415040e4.8725687_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:22:25 -0400, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Surely you can't be serious.
>
> I am.
>
> > To take the phrase "if and only if" in the
> >context of setting the criterion for view updateability, and to say that
> >the "and only if" was redundant and for emphasis is to misread the text.
>
> If I simply say that "a view update can be done if there is PRECISELY
> an unique translation", the "only if" condition is already in the
> meaning of "precisely".
You are wrong.
Come to grips with it, Alfredo. You just don't know English well enough to set yourself up as one who can teach it to the rest of us. Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 19:14:09 CEST